HollywoodBQ said:
We definitely played it in the stands for March-Ins with the Cav under Haney.
Once Toler became band director, I don't think we played it more than a handful of times. We definitely never played it during a halftime as pointed out already, the cadence/tempo wouldn't work for a halftime show.
As far as Blue/Grey Medley, the last time we played the portion that contained Dixie was Fall '88. We also stopped playing Patton for a while after somebody wrote an article to the Batt complaining about both songs. They said that we were "Warmongers" for playing "Patton". So, after that, the passback yell for announcing that it was time to play "Patton" became "Warmonger, pass it back".
I know we've had this discussion before, but I don't remember if it was on here or another chat board. Some 20 years earlier we played an arrangement of Elvis Presley's version of American Trilogy, which included Dixie. So the FTAB is getting ready to go to GRW for a basketball game and Col. Adams get's a phone call which he took in the drum room on the 1st floor of HHH. It was from someone high up in the administration, I've forgotten who, asking him not to play Dixie. That was that for Dixie for the rest of my time in the FTAB. I find it interesting it made a comeback. Yes, I know you young guys have hard time wrapping your mind around the fact there was ONE phone for all of HHH. On top of that, it spent most of my first two years being repaired, as a member of the class of '68, a karate freak, loved to get drunk and kick it through the wall.
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January 31, 1945